Alert archive / Missouri / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 265
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at May 11, 2000, 7:00 PM CDT for 15 counties in Kansas; 19 counties in Missouri. It was in force for 5 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- May 11, 2000, 7:00 PM CDT (00:00 UTC)
- Expired
- May 12, 2000, 12:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 34 counties
Atchison County, KS, Brown County, KS, Doniphan County, KS, Douglas County, KS, Franklin County, KS, Geary County, KS, Jackson County, KS, Jefferson County, KS, Johnson County, KS, Leavenworth County, KS, Morris County, KS, Osage County, KS, Shawnee County, KS, Wabaunsee County, KS, Wyandotte County, KS, Andrew County, MO, Buchanan County, MO, Caldwell County, MO, Clay County, MO, Clinton County, MO, Daviess County, MO, DeKalb County, MO, Gentry County, MO, Grundy County, MO, Harrison County, MO, Holt County, MO, Livingston County, MO, Mercer County, MO, Platte County, MO, Putnam County, MO, Ray County, MO, Schuyler County, MO, Sullivan County, MO, Worth County, MO
The radar
The Topeka radar (KTWX), 86 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:08 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
Warnings issued inside it
21 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 11, 7:04 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Pottawatomie, Shawnee, Wabaunsee | 31 min |
| May 11, 7:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Atchison, Doniphan | 27 min |
| May 11, 7:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Shawnee | 40 min |
| May 11, 7:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Atchison | 31 min |
| May 11, 8:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Atchison | 45 min |
| May 11, 8:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Pottawatomie, Shawnee, Wabaunsee | 40 min |
| May 11, 8:47 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Jefferson, Shawnee | 38 min |
| May 11, 8:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Buchanan, Clinton, Platte | 49 min |
| May 11, 9:24 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TOP | Douglas, Jefferson | 31 min |
| May 11, 9:31 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EAX | Leavenworth | 44 min |
| May 11, 9:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Shawnee | 32 min |
| May 11, 9:58 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TOP | Shawnee, Wabaunsee | 62 min |
| May 11, 10:00 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EAX | Leavenworth, Wyandotte | 45 min |
| May 11, 10:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Johnson | 52 min |
| May 11, 10:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Jackson, Pottawatomie | 42 min |
| May 11, 10:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Clay, Platte | 58 min |
| May 11, 10:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TOP | Jackson, Pottawatomie | 47 min |
| May 11, 11:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Clay, Platte | 64 min |
| May 11, 11:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | EAX | Johnson, Wyandotte | 60 min |
| May 11, 11:25 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EAX | Clay | 50 min |
| May 11, 11:48 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | EAX | Lafayette, Ray | 42 min |
The nearest sounding before it
Topeka, KS (KTOP), launched 00:00Z, 0.0 hours before the alert went out and 46 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 4491 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -13 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1450 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 47 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 181 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 232 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 3.3
- Supercell composite
- 30.9
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 12, 12:00 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Atchison, Brown, Doniphan, Douglas, Geary, Jackson and 12 more | 5 hr |
| May 12, 2:00 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Atchison, Gentry, Harrison, Holt, Mercer, Nodaway and 3 more | 5 hr |
| May 12, 4:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Carter, Christian, Crawford, Dent, Douglas, Franklin and 26 more | 6 hr |
Nearby
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Sources
The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.